Roman Dmowski Quotes

Citizenship should be placed above everything else, even learning.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

The resources of Patriotism are inexhaustible.

I'm not afraid to make a patriotic speech. There should be more of them.

Let us abandon this narrow conception of patriotism, which consists of the doctrine, "My country right or wrong." There is a nobler doctrine, ... "My country must always be right.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

For citizens to always be ready to defend and to maintain American ideals of public justice and liberty would add to the self respect of the people. It will teach the people to think of their government as a unified and exalted power for good in the world—humane, unselfish, and aspiring.

Patriotism, love of country, and pride in the flag which symbolizes country may be feelings which the race will at some period outgrow, but at present they are very real and strong, and the man who lacks them is a useless creature, a mere encumbrance to the land.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

The American Motion Picture industry should do all that is within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

Something has been lost, a special feeling of patriotism, of belonging, is vanishing.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.